Christmas and all that

The weather is getting crazier by the minute. Last weekend we had snowstorms and Arctic winds, then freezing rain that covered everything in a thin sheet of ice, and now it's (almost) warm rain and distant thunder. Which is, of course, the preferable variety so far - not that it will last. Anyway, the trip downtown last Monday for a holiday dinner with friends was successful - by which I mean to say that no one froze to death, though I'm sure we all felt pretty close to it after just a few minutes spent outside.;) I don't think warm food & hot tea ever felt so blissfully satisfying to me before... lol. Taking a taxi back home instead of the train was really the only option I could handle under the circumstances, extravagant or not. Btw, I did check on my car after I got back, to see if I can open the door (it could have frozen) and if it will start (since I hadn't used it for about three days). It did. The one thing it didn't occur to me to check was whether I can actually get out of my parking spot (some of the tires were deeply imbedded in frozen snow). ( And so I found the next morning that I couldn't. )